Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-02-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Isabella Burns Begg, a niece OF
EoSeIS Surns, is dead at the age OF 81
years.
One thousand men from Pike and
Calhoun counties, H., took part In q
recent fox chase.
-Jenner made the first experiment
Of inoculating child from cow-pox
pustule in 1196.
1t cost Lansing, Mich, $50 to con-
Wet 17-year-old girl of the theft Of a
dog valued at 25 cents.
Montana turnips" is the name by
which 5000 or 500 Jumps of bullion are
known IN that Territory.
Bogus tel-cent pieces have made
their appearance at Long Branch, Red
Bank and Asbury Park, n. j.
key West, Fla, reports that thers
are no tramps, no beggars and no OBJ
iects Of charity in that city.
The first time the halls OF Congress
at washington. were Illuminated with
gas was during the Polk AdmInistra-
tion.
Liquor men in various New jersey
cities are SAID to have combined to de-
feat any legislative acticn against their
interests.
| After an absence of two years and
nine days, pet squirrel has returned
voluntarily to its old quarters IN Mattl-
son, Mich.
The number of beggars IN the
streets of San Francisco has grown 80
large as to attract the attention Of the
local press.
Congressman Mitchell, Of Connec-
ticut, had his left arm broken the other
day by being thrown out of sleigh in
New York.
The Chatham, CN. b. World says
that at a recent revival at Mill Branch,
every man and woman in the place
except one-was converted.
Coal OF excellent quality has been
struck near st. Louis by well s;nkers at
a depth OF fiCty-three feet. The extent
OF the vein is as yet unknown.
The failure to agree upon who
should play Macbeth" was the cause
of the disbandment of dramatic society
at PalOuse City, W. T., recently.
-Pittsburg health officers estimate
the death rate in that city for 1886 TO be
81 per thousand. This estimate sup
poses the population to amount to 203.
600.
"A single sheet of paper, seventy-two
inches wide and seven and three-quar-
ters miles long, has been made without
break in paper mill at Watertown,
n. Y.
The gross mineral output CT Mon
tana last year is stated at S24, 200, 600,
of which there was s, 500, 900 in gold,
$1,000, 600 in copper, and SIS, 800, 900 in
silver.
A ten-year-OId girl of Bellaire.
Ohio, had her bare feet so badly frozen
during a somnambulistic trip on re-
cent cold night that they had . be am
putated.
Ralph Lane and companions who
went back to England from Virginia
with Sir Francis Drake, carried with
them the first tobacco ever seen in that
country.
"A CatskilI school teacher attempted
to lick" a cOlored boy one day last
week, but the cOlOred boy whipped him
instead, and then they shook hands and
made up"
-TObogganlng is all the rage at Nor
ristown, y. J. The club owns fine
slide, and numbers among its members
the most fashionable people OF that
wealthy town.
"A farm near Mannington, in Salem
| county, y. j., was sold at auction the
other day. The price was s64 an acre,
said to be about the average market
| u-ipa OF 1ap1 IN, that
"A horse that was the pet of young
lady living at South River, y. j.,
despatch from New Brunswick states,
died after showing unmlstakable signs
of grief since his mistress died, a week
| before.
Miss Lucy Stanley, who lives and
owns considerable property near Evans
vile, Ind, is said to have been pro-
claimed Queen or the Gyps!eS of this
country, vice her sister, who died
December 30th.
Two Catawta Indians were in Co.
lumbus, s. c., q few days ago, as rep
resentativeS or their tribe, seeking re-
dress for sequestratlon of their territory
which they claimed had been reduced
to less than 500 acres.
Frank Pierce. a member of the
Worcester Mass fire department,
slipped in getting off an omnibus, few
days ago, seyerIng an artery In one Of
his legs and bleeding to death in less
than fifteen minutes.
"A lady of Philadelphia presented
her parlOr girl with carpet sweeper on
Christmas, and the girl swept inso a
Iew place the next day, taking the gift
with her. This was kicking up dust
IN the wrong direction.
The public library at New Bruins
wick. n. j., was broken into the other
night by thieves, who scraped up what
money was to be found on the premises
but who, with an utter absence of lite
rary taste, stole never single book.
a st. Louis typo founder says:
Here we are on the eve of 1888, which
creates & triple demand for the figure s.
This triple use of fgureS in the annals
OF time will not occur again until 1911,
1899, 2O00, 2022, Pill, 2122, 2202, 2212,
2222, etc."
Carefully made experiments at the
University OF Pennsylvania, conducted
by Professor Barker, have shown that
some of lIr. Muybridge's Photographic
exposures were made in periods of time
varying from the one two-thOusandth
to the one five-thousandth of a second.
The ''oldest man in New Eng
land" Chares King, who is said to have
smoked and used liquors as he cared to
for over 90 years, celebrated recently,
at Middleton, Mass. his 1o6th birth
day anniversary. His mother, it is
stated, lived to be 107 years old, and he
is still hale enough to look for several
years OF life yet,
THE plan of farmer for securing
large crops is thus stated by him: ST
tell my men to harrow the ground until
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